CLOSING DOORS: When fourth-grade teacher Sandra is criticized by old friend and Assistant Principal Valerie for breaking protocol in an active shooter drill, they must decide how they can save both their friendship and their students.

Written by John Minigan

Directed by Jonathan Cook

Performed by:

Marian Thibodeau as SANDRA

Devon McSherry as VALERIE

Intro/Outro music: JK/47

Featured score by Exist Strategy

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Playwright bio: John is a recent Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow in Dramatic Writing and New Repertory Theatre Next Voices Fellow. His plays have been presented by Circle Repertory Company, Urban Stages, Hey Jonte!, Centastage, Vagabond Theatre Company, New World Theatre, Clockwise, Good Company, Shelter West, and others. He is a 2020 winner of the New American Voices Festival, a 2019 winner of the Clauder Competition, a 2018 O'Neill and Lark finalist, a finalist for the Heidemann Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and a two-time Elliot Norton Award Best Play nominee. He has developed new work at the Utah Shakespearean Festival's New American Playwrights Project, New Repertory Theatre, Portland Stage Company, the Great Plains Theatre Conference, the Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Dayton Playhouse, and Vermont Actors' Rep. John is a five-time winner of the Firehouse Theatre New Works Contest, winner of the Nantucket Short Play Contest, the KNOCK International Short Play Competition, the Rover Dramawerks Competition, the Longwood 0-60 Competition, and the 8-Minute Madness Festival in New York City. He is a member of The Playwrights Center and StageSource and is a Dramatists Guild Ambassador for Eastern New England.